· Private foundation
Dorothy Loudon Foundation
Its FY2018 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2018.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2018
- Under $10k16 grants · $68k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $53k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THEATRE WORLD AWARDS | $40,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $12,997 |
| Individual grant recipient | $7,500 |
| THE NEW GROUP THEATER | $5,000 |
| ANIMAL RESCUE FUND | $5,000 |
| SIGNATURE THEATER | $5,000 |
| NYCity Center | $5,000 |
| CLASSIC STAGE COMPANY | $4,500 |
| THE VINEYEARD THEATER | $4,500 |
| ATLANTIC THEATER COMPANY | $4,500 |
| PLAYWRIGHTS HORIZON | $4,500 |
| PRIMARY STAGES | $4,500 |
| MANHATTAN THEATRE CLUB | $4,500 |
| MINT THEATER COMPANY | $4,500 |
| ROUNDABOUT THEATRE COMPANY | $4,500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–18) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 94% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 78% of Dorothy Loudon Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 100% of the giving stays in NY; by stated purpose, 27%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +33% since the first grant, against +18% for those funded once.
17 repeat relationships: 17 still active in FY2018, 0 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2018 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2018, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- ATATLANTIC THEATER COMPANY2× · 2017–2018 · $7k · revenue +51%
- MTMANHATTAN THEATRE CLUB INC2× · 2017–2018 · $6k · revenue +35%
- PHPLAYWRIGHTS HORIZONS INC2× · 2017–2018 · $6k · revenue +21%
Funded once
- ATAMERICAN THEATER COMPANY2× · 2017–2018 · $2k
- TGTRANSPORT GROUP THEATRE CO2× · 2017–2018 · $2k
- P7PAGE 73 PRODUCTIONS2× · 2017–2018 · $1k
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Producing and developing plays and musicals.
Wp theater is the nation's oldest and largest theater company dedicated to developing, producing, and promoting the work of women+ at every stage of their careers. for over four decades we have served as leaders of a global movement…
Theatre can lead to extraordinary moments of shared imagination. it enables us to stand in anothers shoes to better understand ourselves and the world around us. it shows us who we are, who we have been, who we could be. the nt delivers on…
Titan theatre company is committed to breathing new life and clarity into classical works of theatre, exploring new and contemporary language plays, and delivering adventurous and visceral theatrical experiences for our audiences and…
As the nation's foremost producer of shakespeare and new work, the public theater is dedicated to achieving artistic excellence while developing an american theater that is accessible and relevant to all people through productions of…
The mission of theatre for a new audience is to develop and vitalize the performance and study of shakespeare and classic drama. the theatre is dedicated to the language and ideas of writers - to a dialogue over centuries between…
Producing & developing American plays.
The Directors Company is an award-winning not-for-profit theatre company with an extraordinary record in its mission to develop and produce groundbreaking new plays and musicals initiated and generated by outstanding directorial talent,…
Develop recognition of international theater
How this is measured
22 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 22 of the 26 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds MINT THEATER COMPANY INC ↗
- Who funds ROUNDABOUT THEATRE COMPANY INC ↗
- Who funds ATLANTIC THEATER COMPANY ↗
- Who funds Primary Stages Company Inc ↗
- Who funds MANHATTAN THEATRE CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds PLAYWRIGHTS HORIZONS INC ↗
- Who funds CSC REPERTORY LTD D/B/A CLASSIC STAGE COMPANY ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK THEATRE WORKSHOP INC ↗
- Who funds EAST HAMPTON LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds RED BULL THEATER INC ↗
- Who funds The Playwrights Realm ↗
- Who funds GOD'S LOVE WE DELIVER INC ↗
- Who funds NORTH SHORE ANIMAL LEAGUE AMERICA INC ↗
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: The Shubert Foundation Inc · The Lucille Lortel Foundation Inc · Axe-Houghton Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · The Howard Gilman Foundation Inc · Michael Tuch Foundation Inc · Richenthal Foundation · Jerome Robbins Foundation · Marta Heflin Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Dorothy Loudon Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Dorothy Loudon Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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